Regularly, I find out about a piece of historical interest from rather diverse and odd sources. It was only eight or ten years ago, having lived many decades in Cork, that I knew that St. Finbarr’s Hospital was a Workhouse in the past. This registered when someone commented that there were people who would go to the then Erinville Maternity Hospital rather than the (then) St Finbarr’s Maternity because of its previous use as a Poorhouse. | FAMINE MEMORIAL |